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After
two seasons of unmasking crooked culprits,Fred Silvermanwanted to keep what was essentially his baby from becoming
too stale. When the time came to renewScooby-Doo,
Where Are You!for a
third season, Silverman decided to punch things up a bit with some slight
tweaks to the show. Though fundamentally the same, the second incarnation of
the franchise ran for a full hour (the first cartoon to do so with a single
story and character rather than several segments with multiple characters) and
introduced the concept of the celebrity team-up to the Scooby-verse.

The title screens were replaced by announcing the guest-star(s) for the episode.

The New Scooby-Doo
Moviessaw Scooby (Don Messick) and the gang teaming up with an
assortment of guest stars who had managed to either be involved or entangled in
the same mysteries the Scooby gang always fell into. The title cards from the
previous series were replaced with Shaggy and Scooby looking at an image of the
featured guest(s) and Shaggy (Casey Kasem) announcing them to the viewer. These
guest stars ranged from real people to fictional characters, many of whom were
either the stars of or eventual stars of Hanna-Barbera-produced
shows.

Because of the nature of the series, agreements had
to be reached with the various guest stars and their estates in order to
reproduce the episodes for home video. Unable to do so for some of them, in
2006 Turner
Home Entertainment released The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Moviesin the United States which contained 15
of the 24 episodes from the series. The British
version only had four episodes and was labeled as “Volume 1,” although no
further volumes were released. The included episodes had an edited introduction
that removed The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Harlem Globetrotters,
The Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy. However, in 2009 the supplemental
DVDs Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrottersand Scooby-Doo Meets Batmanwere released, each containing two
episodes featuring the titular characters. The Batman & Robin episodes were
later included as extras on the 2018 direct-to-video movie Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the
Bold. For Scooby’s 50th
anniversary in 2019, WB was able to secure the rights to 8 of the missing 9
episodes and released them as Best
Of Volume 2and in an (Almost)
Complete Collectionon Blu-ray. To
date, “Wednesday is Missing” was only made available on VHS by Worldvision Home Video
in the United Kingdom as Scooby-Doo Meets
the Addams Family. In 2014,DC Comics, who
had been publishing Scooby comics since 1997, began a series revisiting the
concept of the show calledScooby-Doo! Team-Up.The series features Scooby and the gang teaming-up with
various DC superheroes and other Hanna-Barbera characters.

EPISODE GUIDE:

Season 1:

“Ghastly Ghostly Town” (9/8/72) – The gang helps the Three Stooges
stop a giant bat from ruining their theme park: a real ghost town with real
ghosts.

“The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair” (9/15/72) – The gang teams-up with
Batman and Robin to uncover a counterfeiting ring supplying the Joker and
Penguin.

“Wednesday is Missing” (9/22/72) – The gang ends up becoming the
housekeepers for the Addams family when a giant vulture terrorizes the house
and kidnaps Wednesday.

“The Frickert Fracas” (9/29/72) – Jonathan Winters invites the gang to
Maude Frickert’s chicken farm to help her find a secret formula before a
scarecrow gets it first.

“Guess Who’s Knott Coming to Dinner?” (10/6/72) – The gang takes
shelter in a mansion where everyone believes them to be relatives of the late
Captain Moody, including Don Knotts.

“A Good Medium is Rare” (10/13/72) – Phyllis Diller’s fortune is
sought after by a gargoyle, and she recruits the gang to help her after they
return her dog to her.

“Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde” (10/20/72) – Sandy Duncan’s movie is
disrupted by various monsters, prompting the gang and a love-struck Scooby to
help her.

“The Secret of Shark Island” (10/27/72) – The gang runs into Sonny and
Cher at a hotel that’s under siege by the Shark God Pescado Diabolico and his
Shark Men.

“The Spooky Fog of Junebrry” (11/4/72) – Don Knotts and a mysterious
fog lead to mayhem in the western town of Junebrry.

“The Ghost of Bigfoot” (11/11/72) – The gang helps Laurel and Hardy
solve the mystery of the ghost of Bigfoot terrorizing a popular ski resort.

“The Ghost of the Red Baron” (11/18/72) – The ghost of Manfred von
Richthofen terrorizes the Three Stooges when Curly-Joe takes a crop-dusting
job.

“The Ghostly Creep from the Deep” (11/25/72) – The gang and the Harlem
Globetrotters encounter a ship populated by ghost pirates.